I Love You Too [M]

Jim is a man who has never grown up. Being reasonably attractive and incredibly smooth, his life is a string of pretty girls and one-night stands. But then he meets Alice and falls head over heels in love with her. But 3 years into the relationship, he still has not said the words “I love you” and Alice is beginning to question their future together. 

This was one of those movies that was advertised everywhere. Every movie you went and saw would show this trailer, months before the movie was to be released. Needless to say that it was a film that pretty much everyone had heard of. I wasn’t really all that interested in seeing it to be honest, but I came across it at work and thought “why not?” It’s a clever little film, rather romantic, but I don’t really agree with those people who say that it’s really funny. It had its moments definitely, but on the whole it was more lovely than funny. 

Jim is a man who has never grown up. Being reasonably attractive and incredibly smooth and charming, his life has been string of pretty girls, bars, and one-night stands. But then he meets Alice and he falls head over heels in love with her. But 3 years into the relationship, he still has never said “I love you” and Alice, having doubts about their future together, dumps him. All he wants to do is get Alice back, show her how he really feels, and he finds the help he needs in an incredibly romantic stranger named Charlie. With Charlie educating him, Jim is about to learn what it really means to love someone and say those ever-so-important words: “I love you too.” 

What was really lovely about this film was the fact that it looked at different kinds of loves and relationships. There is the relationship between Jim and his sister. There’s the bromance between Jim and his best mate Blake. Obviously there’s the romance between Alice and Jim. And there is also (and probably the most beautiful) friendship that forms between Jim and Charlie. The story was really quite clever how it incorporated all that love. 

Starring Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Peter Helliar, Yvonne Strahovski, Megan Gale, and harbouring an appearance from Hamish Blake, I Love You Too was a very clever and romantic comedy that addressed all kinds of love. Not the funniest thing I’ve ever seen, but worth watching at any rate.